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Epecification of Letters .Patent.

Patented Nov. 15, 1910.

Application filed. April 7, 1909. Serial No. 488,498.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER G. STOUT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Houses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in poultry houses, the object of. the invention eing to provide a house, which can be kept clean with the greatest possible facility, which will have perfect ventilation, which will be warm and tight in cold weather, and which can be easily opened 'to admit free circulation of air therethrough.

A further object is to provide an improved arrangement of roosting rods and dropping board, which latter may be readily positioned, so as to be cleaned from the outside of the house without the necessity of entering the same.

A further object is to provide an improved arrangement of feeding doors, which can be swung to position to receive food'and water from the outside of the house, and then be returned to a position to present the food and water to the poultry on the inside of the house.

A further object is to provide an improved construction and arrangement of nests within the house, to which access may be had from the outside of the house to remove the eggs without entering the house.

A further object is to provide an improved construction of house, which can bev readily knocked down, or in other words, parts can be readily separated from each other and opened up to the action ofsunlight to thoroughly disinfect the same.

A further object is to provide an improved construction and arrangement of doors, windows and roof, which will permit perfect ventilation, and which can be readily closed to protect the poultry from inclement weather.

A further object is to provide an improved construction of'door for closing the poultr j outlet from the house.

A urther object is to provide an improved construction of poultry yard or runway, which latter will be shifted from place. to place withincertain limits, so as to allow the grass to grow on certain patches of ground, while the poultry are feeding upon other patches.

studs 1, and enable proved frame work to which the walls, bottom and roof of the house can be readily secured, or from which they may be removed as will be desired.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations, and arrangements of partsas will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a perspective view illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2, of the front of the house. Fig. 3, is a view in elevation of the back of the house. Fig. 4, is a view in vertical section from front to rear of the house showing a partof the yard or run-way. Fig. 5, is a view in horizontal section on the line 55, of Fig. 2. Fig. 6, is a view in horizontal section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating the frame work of the house with but one end, and the front socured thereto. Fig. 8, is a detail view partly in section and partly in elevation illustrating a door for closing the poultry outlet. Fig. 9, is an enlarged detail view showing the manner of supporting the roosting rods. Figs. 10 and 11, are enlarged detail views illustrating the couplings for holding the walls to the frame.

My improved house is built up around'a frame work, consisting of four vertical studs 1, the front studs being longer than the back,.and connected at their upper ends by inclined bars 2, to give the necessary slope or incline of the roof, and horizontal bars 3 connect the parallel front and rear studs as shown. Horizontal bars 4 connect the four studs 1 at points removed from the lower end of the studs, so that the latter will coffstitute legs or columns to support the house above the ground. The'floor or bottom 5 of the house is notched to accommodate the the floor to overlap the bars 4 and be supported on the latter.

- 6 represents the front wall of the house, 7 and 8 the ends,'9 the back, and 10 the top or roof. These walls are entirely independent of each other,

of wood, but I am of course,'not limited to any particular material usedin the construction of the house.

As indicated clearly in Figs. 7 and 10, sheet metal couplings 11 are secured to the A further object is to provide an imis a View in elevation and are preferably made under face of bars 4, and project outwardly adapted to be positioned upon a run-way or from the latter, and are bent upwardly as walk 34 at the back of the house, and is shown, to confine the lower edges of the provided preferably with a dumping bottom front, sides and back, and the latter are 35: Whenthis cart 33 is in position at the 5 provided with horizontal bars 12 near their rear of the house, the door 32 can be opened 70 upper and lower ends to engage the bars 2, and the dropping board drawn out to an 3 and 4, and form a perfect fit in the frame. inclined position as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

These walls are connected by hooks 13 and The dropping board is provided with eyes 14 as clearly shown, and couplings 15 metal tongues 36, which are adapted to encouple the upper edges of the walls with gage a cross bar-37 on the rear wall 9 just 75 the bars 2 and 3, and when the hooks and above the opening 31, and hold the dropping eyes are in engagement, an extremely strong board in an inclined position, with its lower and solid structure will result. edge projecting into the cart 33. While in The top or roof 10 is provided with this position, the board can be thoroughly strengthening cross bars 16 on its under cleansed, the droppings falling into the cart, 30 face, and to the rear cross bar 16, metal and the board can then be returned to its tongues 17 are secured, and are adapted to position and the cart moved away and enter recesses 18 in the cross bar 3, and predumped. Y

vent upper movement of the rear end of the 38 represents a feeding door, having a 20 roof, but permit the front end of the roof to hinged mounting as shown, and normally 35 be. raised or lowered, and the roof to be closing an opening in the rear wall9. This drawn off the house. as may be desired, and feeding door 38 is connected by pivoted links which will be readily understood by refer- 39, with a second feeding door 40, the latter ence to Fig. 4. The roof 10 projects over the also hinged and adapted when door 38 is walls at all four sides of the house and the drawn open, to be moved by the pivoted 90 forwardly projecting portion of the roof is links 39 to a osition to close the opening in provided with eyes 19, and the front of the the wall 9. EVatering and feeding troughs house is provided with hooks 20. The cen- 41 are secured to the doors 38 and 40, so t t ter hook 20 is in a higher plane than the when the door 38 is swung open, and t e side hooks 20, and is adapted to enter the door to closed position, these troughs will center eye 19 of the top, and support the both be accessible from the outside, to be roof in an elevated position as shown in cleaned and filled, and when the door 38 is Figs. 2 and 4, to allow a free circulation of closed, both troughs will be accessible to the air from the interior of the house, and aspoultry within the house.

35 sist in ventilating the same. The other The end wall 8 is provided with ahinged hooks 20 are'so positioned as to lock the roof door 42, which latter is made with a sliding tightly down upon the walls in inclement sash 43, mounted to slide in grooved bars weather. 44 on the door, and provided with a pin or Blocks 21 are secured to the end walls 7 other lock 45, adapted to hold the sash over 4 and 8 near t ir rear edges, and properly a screen. opening 46 of the door, or else be spaced from t e floor, and these blocks are dropped to a position to expose the screen. made with supporting flanges 22 to support This sash is provided with a filling of cloth, and guide a sliding dropping board 23, which will permit the filtered air to enter the forward movement of the board being the house, but will prevent loss of heat, and

45 limited by lips 24 on the blocks 21. Hooks. will maintain the house sufliciently warm in 25 are removably secured on the blocks 21, cold weather. The other end wall 7 is proand arev adapted to enter openings in the vided with a screen opening 47 which may ends of roosting rods 26, and support the be closed by a sash 48 mounted to slide in latter, but permittheir ready removal when horizontal guides 49 on the wall. The sash so des red. Below the dropping board,aframe is also filled with cloth, and its function is 27 is located, and is divided by partitions the same'as the other sash 43 above de- 28, into a series of nests 29, to which access scribed. may be had through an opening in the back, Suitable catches or locks 50 may be proan normally closed by a hinged. door 30, vided to lock the several doors, but of 55 so. that the eggs can be removed'i ifrom the course, I do not limit myself to any particunests without the necessity of entering the lar form of lock.

house. The frame 27 is removable, and The front wall 6 .is made with a large. may be taken out of the house whenever descreened opening 51, and a sash 52 having sired to cleanse and disinfect the same. .The a filling of canvas is hinged at its upper 60 back 9 of the house is provided with an end as shown,"and adated to close the elongated open ng 31 in a plane in line screened openm in col weather. This with the dropping board 23, and this opensash 52 is provi ed with a hinged pro 53, mg is normally closed by a hinged door 32, adapted to hold the sash in an incline powhich I term the dropping door. sition as shown in the drawings, so that the- 65 33 represents a wheeled cart, which is sash will constitute an awning, and while 1 0 and will keep the house cool. This sash may be secured in an open position by means of a cord 54, secured around a holding devlce 55 on the front 6, and will prevent the sash from being blown upward to release the Proprespectively,

and plants, while another portion 0 represents the; poultry outlet, which is preferably located near one corner and in the front as shown, and this outlet is adapted to be closed by a door 56, the latter mounted to slide in guides 57 on the inner face of the front. This door is normally held in open position by a coiled spring 58, and is drawn to closed osition by means of a hinged rod 59, the atter adapted when drawn outward to close the door, to be swung downwardly on its hinge and lock the door in closed position as clearly shown in Fig. 8. c

In front of the front wall 6, and embedded in the ound, sufiiciently' deep to prevent the pou try digging under the same, I rovide longitudinal and cross bars 60 an 61' the former servin as rails of a track on which my improve ca e 62 is mounted to slide. This cage-may e made in'various ways, but is preferably of rectangular form, and com osed in large partof wire screen, so as to a low free circulation of air, and free entrance of the rays of the sun to the poultry confined thereb The intermediate cross bars 61 project higher than the other bars, and serve to limit sliding 'movement of the cage, effectually guidinlgq the poultry entrances 63 into register wit the poultry outlet 55 in the frontof the house. The purpose of this yard or run-way, is to confine the poultry to a certain area, where they may feed upon the growing ass ground is bringing forth a new crop, and by this means, the yard or cage may be shifted from one section of the ground to another, so as to prevent the poultry devastatingany particular spot. 5

While I have shown but two adjustments of the yard, it is manifest that a number of such adjustments may be made with but set forth, but consider mysel the slight-alterations in the structure, and various other chan es might be resorted to without departing rom my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the fprecise details at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the s irit and scope of the claims.

Having thus escribed my invention,what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1

1. In combination with a four walled structure, a top or roof, tongues onsaid top or roof, and the rear wall of said structure having recesses to receive said tongues, eyes on the forward lower face of said top or roof, hooks on the front wall of the structure, ada ted to engage said eyes and lock the roof in closed position, and a hook on said front adapted to engage one of said eyes, and hold the roof in an elevated or partly open position.

2. In a device of the class described, a frame comprising a plurality of vertical members;'horizontal members connecting the same adjacent the. lower\ ends thereof and substantially horizontal members connecting the upper ends of said vertical members forming a substantially rectangular open structure, panels for closing the spaces between said vertical and horizontal members, transverse members secured to the inner faces of said panels and adapted to fit snugly between the respectiveframe members, a hook shaped bracket secured to each of the lower horizontal members of the frame and adapted to extend upwardly on the outer face of the respective panels, a detachable metal clip securin the upper horizontal frame members an the upper ends of the panels together, and hook and eye connections between the edges substantially as described,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

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